I’m reasonably sure it’s someone who doesn’t like me and is feeding this url to the spam wolves.

I think that’s unlikely; I think it’s more likely that it was pure bad luck that this thread was picked at random by a bot, or it could be because bots were looking for pre-existing “spammy” phases (such as “FULL MOVIE AVAILABLE TO STREAM”).

On my last visit to Alton Towers, I couldn’t convince my son to ride Oblivion. Since queues on Smiler were a nightmare (this was before the accident), we did Nemesis again instead.

Not been to Thorpe Park, but would like to ride Swarm and Stealth one day.

Went on Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster avec Aerosmith at Disneyland Paris, and Star Tours of course.

Have ridden The Ultimate (the longest roller coaster in Europe) but didn’t really think it was anything special. The most exciting aspect is wondering if the train is going to hit any of the deer that occasionally stray onto the line.

As for flat rides, I’m a fan of Eagle’s Claw at Lightwater Valley which is a KMG Afterburner (a type of pendulum ride).

Also at Lightwater Valley, Whirlwind (which has now gone), which was a Mondial Top Scan. Talking to the operator who told me that it was only ever operated at 70% of it’s top speed because they had complaints about it making people sick.

In English: it appears that a Russian torrent site is hosting versions of the original trilogy described as “Despecialized Extended Cuts” - I have no idea what this means. Might be of interest if anyone wanted to investigate.

What are the minor differences between the 35mm and the 70mm audio? I seem to remember something about a missing effect during the snowspeeder crash.

Am I correct in thinking that the list of audio differences in the wikipedia article is incorrect and actually represents differences between the theatrical and SE mix?

Yes, the wikipedia article on this is totally wrong. The changes it lists are just differences for the SE, and have nothing to do with the 70mm version. For a long time, since there was no recording of the 70 for anyone to check against, it was often assumed that it must have contained many of these SE differences; but once the in-theater recording surfaced, this rumor was proved to be incorrect. In actuality, it is very nearly identical to the 35mm version. In addition to the in-theater recording, morgands1 also provided a link to an article from 1981 where the mixing of The Empire Strikes Back is specifically discussed, in which the mixers say outright the two were very close, and that very few changes were made for the 35.

Most of the differences between the 70 and the 35 are so small as to be virtually inconsequential. Here is a complete list from what I remember:

The sound of Luke’s lightsaber deactivating as he leaves the Wampa cave is clearly audible in the 70, while in the 35 it is greatly reduced in level. This was probably changed because he is far from the camera and moving away.

When the walkers first open fire in the snow battle, the explosions are significantly louder in the 35.

One of the snowspeeder attacks on an Imperial walker uses a laser sound normally used for TIE fighters. In the 35 this was changed to the X-wing laser sound, which the speeders use everywhere else in the snow battle.

When 3PO says “R2, you take good care of Master Luke now, understand? And . . . do take good care of yourself,” the word ‘and’ is clearly audible. In the 35, the ‘and’ has been reduced significantly in level. (Not sure of the reasoning behind this one; perhaps it was to make him sound less hesitant in telling R2 to take care.)

In the transition from Dagobah to the Imperial fleet after the cave scene, a different TIE fighter sound effect is heard.

The end scene is edited completely differently. It does not contain tracked music from earlier in the film, as it does in the 35, due to the scene being shorter. Lando’s line “When we find Jabba the Hutt and that bounty hunter, we’ll contact you,” is absent. His lines “Luke, we’re ready for takeoff,” and “Princess, we’ll find Han. I promise,” are different takes.

That’s it. There are no other changes in content between the 70mm and 35mm mixes of Empire. The re-editing of the last scene, which was mainly done to accommodate the insertion of additional shots of the rebel ships, is by far the largest change, and the only one that is particularly significant. While it might be possible to recreate the other changes by editing in bits of other mixes, the end scene would be difficult. Perhaps not impossible, but there wouldn’t be any point unless the picture were also edited to match the difference in length; and there wouldn’t be any point in that unless the other visual differences could also be reproduced.

The 8mm version, contrary to what was stated earlier, is not at all the same as the 70mm. While it does use a number of the early visual composites created for the 70 which were replaced in the 35, the audio track is entirely separate, and its numerous differences in ADR are not present in the 70mm mix.

The snowspeeder crash sound being missing in the 1993 mix is an odd error that doesn’t appear in any other version. Both the 35mm and 70mm mixes do have it. My theory is that the four-track master omitted it mistakenly, and that it wasn’t corrected on that copy because only parts of the mix would have been re-recorded for later changes. Therefore, this early mistake ended up on home video even though it had already been fixed for the theatrical releases. That’s the danger of going back to earlier generation copies: better sound quality is obtained, but any later changes may not be present.

Thanks hairy_hen, that’s very interesting. I should really have asked this in a dedicated thread…

As I’ve said before, I consider The Phantom Menace to be a good example of a 1990s sci-fi film, heavily laden with CGI but enjoyable entertaining silly fun nonetheless. See also Independence Day (1996), Starship Troopers (1997) and Men in Black (1997).

(BTW thread moved to General Star Wars Discussion as the topic has nothing to do with Theatrical Cuts vs Special Editions)

You do not need to publicly announce that you have sent a PM. An update to a private topic is indicated to participants by way of the icon in the top right of the screen.

I understand what you mean. My [PM sent.] postings were supposed to be a helpful indicator for other forum members that these link requests were taken care of. I simply wanted to prevent that a new forum member gets confused by multiple Private Topic invites. Maybe i was too ambitious in that case. I’ll stop these [PM sent.] postings asap.

ask the person to edit their request post, and indicate the request is no longer needed? good resolution. 😃

Or you could do what Harmy did: post the links to pastebin then tell people what to search for, so the thread does not get clogged up with requests for links?

In 2008 Carrie was interviewed as part of a show called “Bring Back… Star Wars” (original thread here). Watching again, the presenter Collins comes across as a bit of a perv, but Carrie takes it all in her stride, respect to her. There are even early hints of the affair with Harrison!https://youtu.be/59SVV_oambc